- MIT President says required DEI statements ‘impinge on freedom of expression’
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has dropped its controversial hiring practice that requires prospective faculty to write a ‘diversity statement’ as part of the application process.
The university previously required faculty applicants to provide the hiring team with a statement demonstrating ‘knowledge of challenges related to diversity, equity, and inclusion’.
Applicants were also required to outline their ‘track record of working with diverse groups of people’ and share how they plan to advance diversity, equity (DEI) and inclusion within their role at the school.
MIT President Dr. Sally Kornbluth has now decided to remove the requirement because ‘compelled’ diversity statements allegedly ‘impinge on freedom of expression’ and ‘don’t work’, the university confirmed to DailyMail.com.
The school is the first elite private university to backtrack on the controversial application practice.
The country already learned the hard way that DEI doesn’t work with race at the executive level – we may never recover from the Obama years and we are so fortunate that we didn’t carry through with the gender portion!